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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(colloquial) A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket..
He came into the limelight during segregation when a falling goboon brought with it a shower of something else and he earned the name of Reiny and a black N five stars.
[About Antek's bar:] Neither bright neon nor a soft fluorescence lighted either his ceiling or his walls; but there was plenty of butchershop sawdust along the floor and an old-fashioned golden goboon for every four bar stools.
In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words: "Without objection, so ordered."
Use goboon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Goboon means (colloquial) A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He came into the limelight during segregation when a falling goboon brought with it a shower of something else and he earned the name of Reiny and a black N five stars.
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